From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 27894@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27894: Building Guix fails without '/etc/services'
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:09:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv7jr453.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170801002358.GA1481@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:23:58 -0400")
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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> On a system that lacks '/etc/services' (CoreOS), building Guix from
> source fails because getaddrinfo() doesn't know how to proceed:
>
> ERROR: In procedure getaddrinfo: Servname not supported for ai_socktype
>
> I worked around this issue by downloading the binaries by hand with
> curl.
You get the error above when running “make”, which in turn runs
build-aux/download.scm, right?
If so, I think this can be worked around with:
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diff --git a/build-aux/download.scm b/build-aux/download.scm
index 8dfa91460..5cb2491dc 100644
--- a/build-aux/download.scm
+++ b/build-aux/download.scm
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
(guix hash))
(define %url-base
- "http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/bootstrap"
+ "http://alpha.gnu.org:80/gnu/guix/bootstrap"
;; Alternately:
;;"http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/packages"
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However, the whole point of /etc/services is so that application writers
don’t have to hard-code port number everywhere. So I’d be tempted to
say this is not a bug.
WDYT?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-01 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-01 0:23 bug#27894: Building Guix fails without '/etc/services' Leo Famulari
2017-08-01 10:09 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-08-01 19:39 ` Leo Famulari
2020-02-11 20:10 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-02-11 20:40 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-02-11 20:50 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-02-24 16:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
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